WTBY-TV
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Poughkeepsie - New York, New York United States |
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| City | Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 54 () |
| Subchannels | 54.1 - TBN 54.2 - Hillsong Channel 54.3 - JUCE TV/Smile 54.4 - Enlace 54.5 - TBN Salsa |
| Affiliations | TBN |
| Owner |
Trinity Broadcasting Network (Trinity Broadcasting of New York, Inc.) |
| First air date | April 6, 1981 |
| Call letters' meaning | Trinity Broadcasting New York |
| Former callsigns | WFTI-TV (1981–1983) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 54 (UHF, 1981–2008) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1981–1983) |
| Transmitter power | 800 kW |
| Height | 357.7 m (1,174 ft) |
| Class |
DT (Digital Television) |
| Facility ID | 67993 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°29′20″N 73°56′53″W / 41.48889°N 73.94806°WCoordinates: 41°29′20″N 73°56′53″W / 41.48889°N 73.94806°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WTBY-TV, channel 54, is a television station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. WTBY is owned and operated by Trinity Broadcasting Network, and serves as TBN's owned and operated station in the New York City television market. WTBY's studios are located on Union Square in Manhattan, and its transmitter is located near Beacon, New York.
The station signed on April 6, 1981 as WFTI-TV. The station was initially owned by Family Television, Inc., founded by Keith Houser in 1979, and headquartered in the Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall on U.S. Route 9 in the city of Poughkeepsie. WFTI's early programming included reruns of The Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid, and the station originated coverage of Army Cadets sports (except the Army-Navy college football game); Family TV also produced Valley Magazine, a nightly 30-minute program with interviews of local celebrities, such as James Cagney.
After Irving Trust, the station's sole banking source, experienced financial problems and prematurely called the station's loan in 1982 (Irving Trust was ultimately shut down by the Federal Reserve), Family Television sold the station to the Trinity Broadcasting Network in June 1982, though the sale would not be completed until over a year later, in July 1983. TBN then changed the station's call letters to the present WTBY-TV and moved the station's operations to studios in the village of Fishkill.
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